All he needed to know before making up his mind about the place was that its proud fathers built a giant lemon statue on a grassy median downtown. A beach bum at heart, Goode tried to avoid East County whenever possible. It made him feel like he’d been transported to the Bible Belt, surrounded by white men driving trucks with gun racks. He was curious to meet Sharona’s mother, though, so he could see if there was a connection between Sharona’s and Tania’s deaths other than the obvious—the beauty school, Pumphouse, and drugs. Goode met with Patricia Glass for a couple hours, gathering quite a bit of background information about the family and their long connection to Clover Ziegler’s. However, when he read over his notes in his van afterward, he realized that most of it was generally irrelevant to solving the case. Sharona and Clover had been childhood friends, and because Clover was also a beauty school student, Goode knew a visit with her was long overdue.
